Romania court extends detention of Andrew Tate pending trafficking probe

VIENNA - A Vienna museum where climate activists recently attacked the glass screen shielding a Gustav Klimt painting has responded with an exhibit entitled 'A Few Degrees More' that tilts works to draw attention to the need for action on climate change. Activists from the group...

- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that the risk of a nuclear clash was at its highest level in decades, warning that Moscow was in a "de-facto" open conflict with Washington over the war in Ukraine. Relations between Russia and the United States,...

LONDON - Shell recommended on Wednesday its shareholders vote against a climate activist resolution asking for more stringent emissions cuts by 2030 at its May 23 general meeting. Activist group Follow This said in December it had co-filed resolutions with six major institutional...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday its staff is seeking information on cloud computing companies business practices including details on their market power, competition and potential security issues. Commission staff are seeking information about competitiv...

By Sam Tobin LONDON - Britain's approval for the planned Sizewell C nuclear plant came under scrutiny in London's High Court on Wednesday, as campaigners' lawyers argued the government failed to assess the environmental impact of the project. The building of the pla...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told lawmakers on Wednesday that China was "very carefully" watching how Washington and the world respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the impact of which he said was being felt in Asia. Speaking on the heels of a visit to M...

By Asif Shahzad LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistan's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday sought a parliament ruling to empower authorities to tackle former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party's alleged involvement in violence. The ruling was asked for in a joint s...

By Amanda Cooper LONDON - Bank of England policymakers will not have looked at Wednesday's inflation data with the same enthusiasm as sterling traders, who took advantage of a shock jump to push the pound up, confident that a rate hike this week is now a done deal....

By Steve Gorman and Brendan O'Brien LOS ANGELES - Tens of thousands of storm-weary Californians were without power and under evacuation warnings on Wednesday as the latest storm packing wind-blown rain and snow threatened to bring more flooding to the rain-soaked state....

By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK - A New York grand jury was expected on Wednesday to resume its closed-door investigation of whether Donald Trump made illegal hush-money payments to a porn star, which could yield the first-ever criminal charges against any U.S. president....

By Isla Binnie UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations opened its first conference on water security in almost half a century on Wednesday, with a plea to governments to better manage one of humanity's shared resources. A quarter of the world's population relies on uns...

- Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday that it would seek U.S. Supreme Court review on its strategy to address tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products in bankruptcy court, after a U.S. appeals court rejected its request for rehearing. (Reporting b...

- Iga Swiatek has withdrawn from the Miami Open due to a rib injury, the world number one and defending champion said on Wednesday. Top seed Swiatek was due to begin her campaign against American Claire Liu in the second round on Thursday after being given a bye in the first roun...

MADRID - Spain's Constitutional Court has dismissed a challenge by far-right party Vox against a euthanasia law approved in 2021, dealing a second blow to Vox on Wednesday as its no-confidence motion against the government failed in parliament. By a wide margin of nine votes in...

HONG KONG - Apollo, Chinese tech giant Baidu's smart car business, has received approval to be among the first companies to test fully autonomous vehicles in Shanghai, China's largest city, it said on Wednesday. The business currently operates driverless robotaxi services in spec...

LONDON - Four years after hanging up his gloves former Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has the chance to add another piece of silverware for British ice hockey club Chelmsford Chieftains this weekend. Cech, who won four Premier League titles, the Champions League and five FA Cups fo...

- Moderna Inc will no longer have the economies of scale it had in government procurement when its COVID-19 vaccine moves into the private market, Chief Executive Officer Stephane Bancel told lawmakers on Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing as he defended the company's plan to quadruple th...

TAIPEI - Honduras demanded $2.5 billion in aid from Taiwan the day before Honduran President Xiomara Castro tweeted her government would seek to open relations with China, a source familiar with the situation told on Wednesday. Honduras is one of only 14 countries to maintain fo...

SAO PAULO - Brazil's federal police on Wednesday launched an operation to dismantle a criminal gang that plotted to carry out deadly attacks against police officials and public servants, the Minister of Justice Flavio Dino and other authorities said. The attacks would have involv...

BRUSSELS - The European Union wants to give consumers the right to have worn-out products like washing machines and televisions repaired by producers even after the sales guarantee has expired, to cut waste and make goods last longer. The European Commission proposed rules on Wed...

By Ahmad Ghaddar and Rowena Edwards LONDON - The European jet fuel market is coming under pressure from oversupply even as demand from the aviation industry continues its post-COVID recovery, market sources told .     European profit margins for producing jet fuel...

WASHINGTON/TOKYO - Boeing Co has secured a deal worth at least $2.5 billion at list prices to sell 21 of its 737 MAX jets to Japan Airlines Co (JAL), industry sources said. The deal will be announced on Thursday, they added, after talks to renew the narrow-body fleet emerged earl...

LONDON - Europe's STOXX real estate sector fell to a five-month low on Wednesday amid expectations both the Federal Reserve and Bank of England (BoE) will raise interest rates this week. Tightening financial conditions are set to weigh further on the battered sector, which sharp...

By John Revill ZURICH - The fall of Credit Suisse has dealt a serious blow to Switzerland's credentials as the world's leading wealth management centre, experts warn, calling into question its reputation for stability, regulation and corporate governance. Battered b...

By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS - The spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians said on Wednesday that Russia's powerful Orthodox Church shared responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine but that he stood ready to help in Russia's postwar "spiritual regeneration"....

By Huw Jones LONDON - Tougher rules for liability-driven investment (LDI) funds due next week from the Bank of England must strike a balance between improving resilience and allowing the funds to remain useful, UK government ministers said on Wednesday. LDI funds, u...

By Hannah Lang and Elizabeth Howcroft - Stablecoin USDC's issuer Circle said its chief strategy officer's Twitter account was hacked on Wednesday, after the account posted a link appearing to offer holders of the stablecoin USDC a "one-time bonus" of free cryptocurrency....

By Sam Tobin LONDON - Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska on Wednesday denied lying about the relocation of EN+ Group from Jersey to Russia to avoid U.S. sanctions, as he fights his former business partner's attempt to jail him at London's High Court. Deripaska,...

By Emilio Parodi MILAN - One of three prosecutors accusing Italian soccer club Juventus of financial misconduct has left the case after the emergence of derogatory comments he made about the team, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. In a...

LISBON - Cocaine use has increased across Europe, an EU-wide wastewater study showed on Wednesday, with the highest levels of residues found in Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. The study, the largest to date by the Lisbon-based European drugs monitoring agency EMCDDA...